{"id":179204,"date":"2023-08-06T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=179204"},"modified":"2023-08-06T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T20:30:20","slug":"why-did-the-most-detested-us-soccer-player-laugh-was-she-paid-to-throw-the-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=179204","title":{"rendered":"Why did the most detested US soccer player ever laugh? Was she paid to throw the match?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"articleWide cleared\">\n<div class=\"alpha\">\n<div id=\"js-article-text\" class=\"article-text wide  heading-tag-switch\">\n<h2 id=\"ext-gen187\">Megan Rapinoe slammed by USA fans for LAUGHING after missing a crucial penalty in the World Cup shootout against Sweden&#8230; before crying on the field as her team are knocked out<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Megan Rapinoe said it was &#8216;dark comedy&#8217; and &#8216;a sick joke&#8217; to miss a penalty\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>But many fans watching back in America were upset by her immediate reaction\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12378135\/Megan-Rapinoe-slammed-USA-fans-LAUGHING-missing-crucial-penalty-World-Cup-shootout-against-Sweden-crying-field-team-knocked-out.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12378135\/Megan-Rapinoe-slammed-USA-fans-LAUGHING-missing-crucial-penalty-World-Cup-shootout-against-Sweden-crying-field-team-knocked-out.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}